Igneous Rocks
This is what the smaller pieces of sedimentary rocks start off as.
What is sediment?
These types rocks that can become metamorphic rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and most metamorphic rocks?
The three categories all rocks can be put into.
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
This word means "resulting from or produced from fire."
What is Igneous?
This is another term for melted rock.
What is molten rock?
These two things are required for a metamorphic rock to form.
What are heat and pressure?
A rock that was melted down and crystalized or cooled inside a volcano is this type of rock.
What is a igneous rock?
"Made from sediment" is the definition of what word?
What is sedimentary?
Molten rock that is found inside a volcano is called this.
What is magma?
The processes that form sedimentary rock are called this.
What is compaction and cementation?
Sandstone (sedimentary) must go through his to become Quartzite.
What is heat and pressure?
These types of rocks can become sediment by weathering.
What is any type of rock?
Metamorphic rocks get their name also from the latin word morph, meaning this.
What is "form" or "to change"?
What two types of sedimentary rocks are there?
What is limestone, chalk, sandstone, conglomerate, shale?
This is why metamorphic rock is great for building.
What is more dense, durable and strong?
Large crystals form in igneous rock when this occurs.
What is slow cooling?
Sedimentary rocks get there name from this, the substance they are made of.
What is sediment?
This type of igneous rock are made when magma comes out of the Earth.
What is Extrusive rock(Basalt)?
This type of rock, used as a fuel source, is formed over millions of years from dead trees and plants?
What is coal?
Metamorphic rocks become heated by collections of this under the earth's surface.
What is magma?
This is how rocks on the surface get pushed into the Earth's core.
What is pressure from tectonic plate subduction?
Rocks can be formed from both organic and inorganic substances. Define inorganic.
What is something that has never been alive?